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Removal of Confederate flags from cemetery sparks controversy [Alabama]
Fox Carolina ^ | May 16, 2015 | Lindsey Rogers

Posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that's sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred. He's also received death threats and hate mail.

The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.

A bag of small Confederate flags sits at Union Springs City Hall. They were removed from graves at an old Confederate cemetery downtown, behind the Red Door Theater, near the intersection of Highway 82 and North Prairie Street.

Myron Penn pulled up the flags with his family on Mother's Day. Penn, a founding partner at Penn & Seaborn Attorneys at Law in Union Springs, who served as state senator for two terms and as chairman of the Bullock County Commission, says he did it for his 4-year-old son.

“The reason why we picked them up is because the image of the flags in our community, a lot of people feel that they're a symbol of divisiveness and oppression of many people in our community,” Penn said. “Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxcarolina.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: abortion; alabama; battleflag; confederate; dixie; grave; plannedparenthood; sanger; scv; zot
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And all in the name of unity...

1 posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.

Yeah...

...NO!

2 posted on 05/16/2015 1:36:46 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if several masked men showed up and gave him a whooping, “In the name of unity”?


3 posted on 05/16/2015 1:37:26 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Timber Rattler

(And I’m Black so...) Of course, nobody could object!

Horse’s ass!


4 posted on 05/16/2015 1:38:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Timber Rattler

OMG...He’s black. There’s a surprise. He belongs in jail. That’s theft.


5 posted on 05/16/2015 1:39:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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How about someone hold him down and paint him white in the name of unity?


6 posted on 05/16/2015 1:46:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: Sacajaweau
h ALA CODE § 13A-7-23.1 : Alabama Code - Section 13A-7-23.1: DESECRATION, DEFACEMENT, ETC., OF MEMORIAL OF DEAD; INVASION OR MUTILATION OF CORPSE Search by Keyword or Citation 1 187 (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes or destroys any tomb, monument, gravestone or other memorial of the dead, or any fence or any inclosure about any tomb, monument, gravestone or memorial, or who willfully and wrongfully destroys, removes, cuts, breaks or injures any tree, shrub, plant, flower, decoration, or other real or personal property within any cemetery or graveyard shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/13A/7/2/13A-7-23.1#sthash.jVMo8R6K.dpuf
7 posted on 05/16/2015 1:48:59 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Timber Rattler
"... I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”

Well, you think wrong then. The only thing I have from my Great Grand Father that fought in the War Between the States is his picture. I am going to visit his grave tomorrow for my families annual decoration day, which has been held on the third Sunday in May for at least the past 100 years. The Confederacy started and stopped with his generation.

In Georgia, all of our Confederate cemeteries fly the Stars and Bars from a pole at the entrance gates. If a person cannot respect a veteran's grave he has no business trespassing in the cemetery in the first place.

8 posted on 05/16/2015 1:49:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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There are CSA Vets buried in National Cemeteries. Does this self anointed one Enforcer Of Political Correctness want to remove their grave markers as well?


9 posted on 05/16/2015 1:49:52 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Sacajaweau

IT’s too bad that some people can’t understand that the past is the past.


10 posted on 05/16/2015 1:51:27 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if several masked men showed up and gave him a whooping, “In the name of unity”?

"“Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”

11 posted on 05/16/2015 1:51:47 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: higgmeister
I don't agree with this mans actions. It's trespassing, theft and desecration of a grave. That said, what flag matters to you? The Stars And Stripes or The Stars And Bars?
12 posted on 05/16/2015 1:56:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: Timber Rattler

I’ve never thought of the Confederacy in the wrong, with regards to states rights. As recent as pre-obama, the relatives of those deceased never would have dreamed that those graves would be robbed of their flags.

But if the left has their way, us veterans reading this right now will likely have their US stars and stripes removed from their graves in 50 years or less by some left wing jerk trying to promote unity. This country’s new flag will likely be a cross between a Mexican flag and a peace symbol with a donkey thrown in somehow.


13 posted on 05/16/2015 1:59:11 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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Well, heck-sakes! I have a problem with it, and I am in California and my forebears fought for the Union. So?? Leave the graves alone, buddy!!


14 posted on 05/16/2015 2:00:40 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Timber Rattler

Man is an idiot.


15 posted on 05/16/2015 2:09:05 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Timber Rattler

Grave desecration.

Hang him.


16 posted on 05/16/2015 2:09:56 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: Timber Rattler

“I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”

Except that it is a grave and you had no authority to desecrate it with your half-assed attempt to erase history instead of teaching it to your 4 year old son.


17 posted on 05/16/2015 2:11:13 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jmacusa

“That said, what flag matters to you? The Stars And Stripes or The Stars And Bars? “

My answer: Both. Good men died under both flags.


18 posted on 05/16/2015 2:11:16 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
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To: Sacajaweau

People of his ilk invite the worst kind of change - like islam - where they cut the hands off of thieves and grave molesters like him. For a first offense I’d recommend community service. Say 180 days of planting and maintaining all of the CBT flags in the cemetery ;’)


19 posted on 05/16/2015 2:12:09 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: redfreedom
This country’s new flag will likely be a cross between a Mexican flag and a peace symbol with a donkey thrown in somehow.

If the left has any say it will be multi-hued and sexually ambiguous.

20 posted on 05/16/2015 2:15:11 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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